One Word: Rest

One Word: Rest

Our pastor challenged us to choose a word to focus on over the next 30 days or so. He asked us to pray and reflect as we considered the word. During the service, my mind jumped from one word to the next but didn’t settle on any word until later at home, when my...
10 Thoughts for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

10 Thoughts for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

I’m preparing to talk to some aspiring entrepreneurs to share my journey. It’s challenging to figure out how to distill my 4+ year entrepreneurial journey into 75 minutes. Which lessons will be most important for these students to hear? Which of my stories...
May The Whisper Become A Song

May The Whisper Become A Song

Saturday afternoon, and the sun is beating down on my kids, their friends, and me as we walk through the tall stalks of a corn maze. We shed sweatshirts and wish for shorts instead of jeans on this 70 plus degree October day. We emerge from the maze into the orchard,...
My Favorite New Life Hack

My Favorite New Life Hack

My family enjoys a home-cooked meal every weekday evening (and other times throughout the week, as well), but I don’t cook them all. Instead, I’ve stumbled on the best-ever entrepreneur life hack imaginable, sharing cooking with another family. My friend...
Time For An Upgrade?

Time For An Upgrade?

A wise client and friend of mine recently encouraged me to consider that every time someone makes an exit from my company, it provides an opportunity for an upgrade. Because I value growth, this perspective makes sense to me. As our company grows, our needs change;...
It’s A Sign

It’s A Sign

We’ve been talking about “Famous Last Words” in our business lately, those things we say that we are so certain of that very quickly prove to be incorrect. For example, for the first year or so of our business, my friend Angie, who worked with us...